Road traffic accidents up

[lynx@gn.apc.org]

  Road traffic accidents up
  
  Diana, ex-wife of Charles Windsor, died in a tragic car crash at the close
  of August. She was driving too fast. Britain looked shocked and sad, and the
  radio stations played tragic music for days on end. The people dreamed of
  purity as they projected their own shining immanence on to her, confusing
  inner archetypes with a public figure. Yet at the same time they empathised
  with her suffering, knowing that she was, after all, one of them. Out of
  respect for 'the People's Princess', royalists abandoned the idea of
  God-given privilege, shared the wealth they had accumulated, and were
  accepted back into the fold of ordinary people. Governments around the world
  decided that the least they could do would be to introduce a comprehensive
  ban on land mines, but knowing that Diana was a single-issue campaigner,
  stopped short of ending exploitation, reminding the people that things
  aren't that simple.
   
   
  (lynx@gn.apc.org)